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Ripperoo
Aug 23, 2013Aspirant
Struggling With Low Speeds < 15MBps Over Gigabit
Hey Guys I have been having a major PITA regarding transfer speeds ever since I purchased my 'ReadyNas Ultra 4 Plus' in May 2011. Originally, I was only getting approx 5-6 MB/second and came to...
StephenB
Aug 28, 2013Guru - Experienced User
I agree that full data journaling should be disabled - though I didn't realize the speed penalty was that severe. That is a simple setting to change (on the system\performance tab), so it is an obvious next step.
Long term, if you are going to leave full journalling off you should get a UPS for the NAS. (Actually in my view you should get a UPS for the NAS no matter how this is set).
Personally I am not a fan of jumbo frames. But at the very least, your home network should be able to carry the standard ethernet MTU. So even if we resolve the 30 MB/sec write problem, we should probably continue to sort that also.
Long term, if you are going to leave full journalling off you should get a UPS for the NAS. (Actually in my view you should get a UPS for the NAS no matter how this is set).
Personally I am not a fan of jumbo frames. But at the very least, your home network should be able to carry the standard ethernet MTU. So even if we resolve the 30 MB/sec write problem, we should probably continue to sort that also.
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